Chapter LXVI. *to amend an Act entitled an “Act to organize an Institution for the Insane of the Army and Navy, and of the District of Columbia in the said District.”* June 1, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section four
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Chap. LXVI.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled an “Act to organize an Institution for the Insane of the Army and Navy, and of the District of Columbia in the said District.”* June 1, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section four of the act of 1855, ch. 199, § 4. Vol. x. p. 682.March the third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, entitled an “act to organize an institution for the insane of the army and navy, and of the District of Columbia in the said District” be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows:
Sec. 4. That the order of the Secretary of War and that of the Secretary Insane persons of the army, navy and revenue cutter service may be kept in custody until cured, &c.of the Navy, and that of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall authorize the Superintendent to receive insane persons belonging to the army and navy and revenue cutter service respectively, and keep them in custody until they are cured, or removed by the same authority which ordered their reception. Approved, June 1, 1860.